Rajya Sabha members are elected for a six-year term. One-third of the members of the Upper House of parliament retire after every two years.
23 Mar 2018 9:08 AM
Social activist Anna Hazare has been pressing for setting up of the Lokpal at the Centre and Lokayuktas in the states.
23 Mar 2018 8:55 AM
Besides Uttar Pradesh West Bengal, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Telangana will also feature in the polls.
23 Mar 2018 8:51 AM
Saudi Arabia, which does not recognise Israel, opened its airspace for the first time to a commercial flight to Tel Aviv.
23 Mar 2018 8:05 AM
USD 1,919, a compass and an ID card were seized from the commando after he was intercepted by SSB troops at Indo-Nepal border.
23 Mar 2018 7:47 AM
The Congress MP demanded that the government should pay a compensation of Rs 1 crore each to the families of the 39 slain workers.
23 Mar 2018 4:17 AM
The company figured in the list of the biggest tax defaulters released by the Income Tax Department in 2015.
23 Mar 2018 1:31 AM
The two giant neighbours held the “11th round of the Working Mechanism on Consultation & Coordination (WMCC) for India-China Border Affairs”.
23 Mar 2018 1:27 AM
Kerala has ought an open court hearing rather than in the judges’ chamber.
23 Mar 2018 1:21 AM
From July this year, face identification will be used for authentication and soon QR codes on Aadhaar will have a photo.
23 Mar 2018 1:15 AM
The police and local sources said that Bhat had been accused of “having gone astray and being involved in anti-movement activists” by his captors.
23 Mar 2018 1:07 AM
There is no CCTV footage of former chief minister Jayalalithaa during her 75-day treatment at Apollo Hospitals.
23 Mar 2018 1:03 AM
In the interview with CNN, Zuckerberg said he was “really sorry”, and pledged to take action against “rogue apps”.
23 Mar 2018 1:03 AM
On March 16, clashes had erupted between irate crowds and the police near the Line of Control (LoC) in PoK, leaving several people injured.
23 Mar 2018 12:59 AM
Pakistan high commissioner Sohail Mahmood will return to New Delhi.
23 Mar 2018 12:56 AM
Prasad said that the pattern of the Congress’ campaign in Gujarat suggested that the party had “used and abused” the services of Cambridge Analytica.
23 Mar 2018 12:54 AM
Mica paintings are considered precious because they constitute a visual social history of 19th century life in India by Indians.
23 Mar 2018 12:29 AM
Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were hanged to death on March 23, 1931.
23 Mar 2018 12:21 AM